Kernel 5.2 is out – slightly later than usual – and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1907.0/05444.html As expected, the latest NVIDIA (430.26) and patched VMware 15.1.0 compile and run OK. Robert Gadsdon. July 7 2019. … Continue reading →
I had previously set up several dual-boot Fedora Linux/Win7 systems, but now had the challenge of doing the same for MacOS as well.. This is absolutely not the place for any discussion on the ramifications of the ‘Hackintosh’ movement, but it will suffice to use that terrible phrase ‘Google is your friend..’.. The Clover/MacOS instance was on … Continue reading →
Kernel 5.2-rc1 is out, and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1905.2/02345.html OK this time, with the latest NVIDIA (430.14), and with patched VMware 15.1.0. It still includes the annoying weird logic change to # make xconfig, so I will be producing an – unofficial – patch to revert this, soon. Robert Gadsdon. May 19, 2019. … Continue reading →
After some serious problems on my test system with plasma-workspace 5.15.x and nouveau (to be described in a separate article..) I had to contemplate moving back to the proprietary nvidia driver, but found – of course – that older cards were not supported by the ‘latest’ drivers. I did find that at least one of the older … Continue reading →
VMware 15.1.0 is out, and release notes are here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Pro/15/rn/VMware-Workstation-151-Pro-Release-Notes.html Sadly, vmmon/vmnet install still fails (tested with Kernel 5.1.2), but a fix is already available – thanks once again to Michal Kubeček – at: https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/workstation-15.1.0 I have tested this, and VMware now runs OK, again.. Robert Gadsdon, May 15 2019. … Continue reading →
Kernel 5.1 is out, and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1905.0/03532.html The latest NVIDIA driver (430.09) and patched VMware 15.0.4 both compile and run OK. One odd quirk, is that the behaviour of # make xconfig has changed, and if you have your custom configs saved out-of-tree, then the save option tries to save them back to the … Continue reading →
Kernel 5.1-rc3 has been released, and brief details of changes since -rc2 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1903.3/08402.html NVIDIA 418.56 with the 5.1 patch compiles and runs OK, but if you are still using VMware 15.0.3 – with the vmmon/vmnet patches – the installer may fail, with a rather vague error message: ………. make[1]: ‘postbuild’ is up to date. make[1]: … Continue reading →
NVIDIA have released driver 418.56, and details are here: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1048767/announcements-and-news/-linux-solaris-and-freebsd-driver-418-56-long-lived-branch-release-/ This version has almost the same problems with Kernel 5.1-rc1 as 418.43, but the fix mentioned in the previous article still applies, after the fixes for ‘list_is_first‘ in ~/kernel/common/inc/nv-list-helpers.h and ~/kernel/nvidia-uvm/uvm8_range_tree.c have been removed, as these are no longer required, and would now cause the compile to … Continue reading →
I have done some more investigation into the NVIDIA compile failures with Kernel 5.1-rc1, and now have a – rather inelegant – solution. I found clues to some of the errors in a post relating to nouveau: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/2/20/50 and the rest were due to content removed from /include/drm/drm_crtc_helper.h in Kernel 5.1-rc1: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.1-rc1/source/include/drm/drm_crtc_helper.h compared to: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.0.3/source/include/drm/drm_crtc_helper.h. I also … Continue reading →
Kernel 5.1-rc1 has been released, and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1903.2/00496.html VMware with the Kernel 5.0 patches fails to compile vmmon, but thanks to Michal Kubeček, a fix is currently available at https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/workstation-15.0.3-test. I have applied this, and VMware 15.0.3 compiles and loads/runs OK with Kernel 5.1-rc1. NVIDIA 418.43 compile fails soon after commencing: …………………. /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-418.43/kernel/common/inc/nv-list-helpers.h:94:19: error: … Continue reading →